latro12

Hello world!

Andrew here,
I’m done with my season on the motor yacht working as the first mate…I made a little gallery for everyone to check out what life was like for me over the past few months!

Check it out…Season Yacht Gallery

I’ll be here at The Surf Sanctaury until the end of summer. This is an open invitation to all to come visit!!!

By the way, you might have heard- Eric and I are currently working on a new web identity for The Surf Sanctuary.  The old site— errr uhmm, was not our creation.

Everyone seems to have one of “those clients” who are always trying to get something for nothing, or abuse the designer to their benefit, or even trying to tell you how to do your job. In sitting through presentations, talking with other designers and reading about other’s experiences, this is obviously an inevitable situation for designers. So when it does happen what is the best course of action? As with any difficult situation there is never a cut and dry answer. One thing that seems to reign in every one of these situations is the lack of respect for the designer. So why is that and how, as designers, do we shift this train of thought for our clients? Continue reading »

Well, after the long battle to get our blog up and running we finally have succeeded! Overall I’m very happy with how the site turned out and feel it consistently fits within our brand development. In fact, I kind of wish the Latro12 site looked more like this – one step at a time though.

Through the trials and tribulations of setting up the blog (had to start over 6 times) I gained a lot of respect for WordPress and can see the potential that this tool has in creating larger more functional sites. Now that the hard part is over I am looking forward to not only expanding my knowledge of this application but actually putting it to good use. With several new projects lining up in the que each has it’s own unique challenge that will help push our web skills in new exciting directions.